Category: News

In recent times, the conversation about Nigerian pastors/churches owning private jets became more intense, as well as the discourse on whether Christians should give tithes or not. On the one hand is the group saying pastors should not own private jets, adding that they are using church funds (tithes and offerings) to maintain their “luxurious […]

The Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC) has slammed a Not-To-Be-Broadcast (NTTB) warning on Olamide‘s latest single “Science Student“. According to Nigerian Tribune, the warning was served to all radio and television stations over the week. Confirming the news, NBC’s Head of Public Affairs Hajia Maimuna Jihada told Tribune that the song was not out-rightly banned but prohibited from being played on local […]

Kechi Okwuchi, finalist at the 2017 “America’s Got Talent” is in Lagos! Okwuchi arrived Lagos on Monday to speak at the Stanbic IBTC’s youth empowerment program “Against All Odds,” where she spoke alongside music producer Cobhams Asuquo and survivor of the United Nations Building bomb blast in Abuja, Member Feese. Okwuchi, after speaking, gave a surprise live performance, singing MI and Waje‘s […]

The Coalition for Nigeria, a third force political group being championed by former President Olusegun Obasanjo, appears to be a major platform that has continued to attract prominent and other members of the National Assembly, Aggrieved members of the ruling All Progressives Congress and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party in both the Senate and House […]

Iyabo Obasanjo-Bello, the eldest daughter of former President Olusegun Obasanjo, has told President Muhammadu Buhari to heed the advice of her father by retiring from politics in 2019. Obasanjo-Bello said this in reaction to the re-publication of a note she wrote to her father based on a letter the former president made public in 2013. […]

President Muhammadu Buhari and former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Sunday met at the opening session of the 30th African Union Summit. It was learnt that the two leaders who are meeting for the first time after former President Obasanjo blasted President Buhari in a 13-page statement, shook hands and talked for about two minutes. It […]

The great global reckoning with sexual harassment is “long overdue”, says acclaimed Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, but the feminist figurehead in Africa hopes it is not “a passing fad”. As the global #MeToo movement against sexual misconduct continues in the wake of the disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein’s downfall, the novelist said it should […]

The refrigerators in the U.S President’s plane, Air Force One, are being upgraded with the sum of $24 million. The contract for the upgrade by the new government has been awarded to Boeing, Washington Post reported on Sunday. The U.S. Air Force will pay the aeronautics behemoth $23,657,671 to replace two of the five chiller units on […]